Paul Lock

Mr Lock has been involved in minerals exploration in South East Asia since 2012, with his work in this region forming the foundations of what is now Pan Asia Metals. Before Pan Asia Metals Paul was a corporate adviser at Everspring Partners, a boutique Sydney based advisory firm that he founded. Before Everspring Paul worked in corporate advisory and leveraged finance roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Paul initially focused on corporate and single asset project finance in the resource sector before moving into leveraged finance for private equity initiatives and then into a corporate advisory role where he was sector agnostic and focused on generating corporate transactions. Prior to banking Paul worked for Rothschild & Co in Australia where he was a derivatives trader and a bond investor focusing on a various asset classes, generally distressed or complex assets. Paul also had some involvement in structuring derivatives solutions for resource companies in conjunction with Rothschild's corporate advisory team. Prior to Rothschild Paul worked for Japanese trading conglomerate Marubeni Corporation in the soft commodity trading division, and earlier with Hunter Grain, a Sydney based trading firm. Before undertaking his graduate degree Paul worked for several exploration drilling companies operating in the Pilbara, Mid West and Goldfields regions of Western Australia.